Peugeot 2008 car review: ‘The panoramic roof was a booby trap’

It has a lot of SUV styling, a beefy, bullish exterior, but is in fact quite underpowered

The Peugeot 2008 is like a sleek-looking person dressed in a cashmere polo neck. A smidge unusual, with a trace of charisma; you don't know whether you want to hug it or smell it.

It has a very open view, thanks to the wide windscreen and the determined addition of windows where you didn't expect them (little triangular ones in front of the wing mirror, a panoramic sunroof). I inferred a pure, unadulterated pride in the French countryside. It turned out the visibility was poor - too many struts between panes of glass - and the panoramic roof was a booby trap. (It looked as though it should open, but was, in fact, only decorative; in the course of pushing every button to find that out, I accidentally called Peugeot's roadside emergency unit. This is an additional feature costing 250, when surely any normal person would pay 250 not to have it.)